The battle to attack Ping'an County began, and in order to convince the little devils that the Eighth Route Army was going to take Ping'an County in one go, Li Yunlong put on a posture of attacking with all his might.

Four infantry guns lined up six hundred meters away.

After a round of artillery bombardment, the position of the city gate of Ping'an County was directly submerged in the artillery fire.

Once upon a time, the Eighth Route Army was able to directly and forcibly suppress the county occupied by the Japanese army with firepower.

After the battle in the direction of the main gate of Ping'an County began, the city gates in several other directions were also blocked by the soldiers assigned to the past.

The menacing troops of the Eighth Route Army surrounded Ping'an County on all sides, and Ping'an County became a dead city in an instant.

In Ping'an County, the headquarters of the Japanese army.

Shigeru Fujita, the captain of the Devil's Gendarmerie, couldn't sit still any longer, and the sudden outbreak of emergency caught him a little off guard.

On the one hand, he dispatched troops and sent all the troops that could be used, even some traitors, regardless of the three-seven-twenty-one, into the troops to assist in garrisoning, and then stationed at the Sifang City Gate.

On the other hand, they urgently asked for help from all sides at the first time.

"Ping'an County was attacked by the main force of the Eighth Route Army, the Eighth Route artillery fire was fierce, and the county was in danger, so I asked for reinforcements quickly!"

Shigeru Fujita didn't have too many doubts about his judgment, although he also had some doubts at first, how could this Eighth Route Army be so rampant that it suddenly wanted to attack Ping'an County?

Before, he had ascended to the gates and observed the situation outside the city.

Outside the city, the Eighth Route Army was heavily pressed, and that team even had a sharp weapon such as heavy artillery in their hands, coupled with the unified standard military uniform of the Eighth Route Army, Fujita Shigeru couldn't help but believe that it was the main force of the Eighth Route Army.

And this is exactly the effect that Li Yunlong wants to achieve.

Naturally, there were regular troops attacking Ping'an County on the outskirts of the city, but only a small part.

Most of them were local troops, as well as siege teams formed by militia comrades.

Anyway, Li Yunlong was decided, and the devils in the county town would never dare to take the initiative to go out of the city to meet the enemy under such circumstances.

Siege without attack, just to scare the little devils, local comrades and militia comrades are enough.

In addition, the local comrades and militia comrades were given regular army uniforms and some firepower was strengthened.

Of course, just besieging but not attacking can easily arouse the suspicion of the devils.

So after besieging Ping'an County on all sides, Li Yunlong issued another order for the second stage:

Let the comrades of the local troops form a separate column, take advantage of the fact that the sky is not completely bright, and under the cover of their own artillery fire, launch a continuous feint attack on the Japanese defensive positions at the city gate.

The rapidly moving siege troops made the Japanese army feel oppressed.

At a glance, such a big battle would probably be thought by anyone that the Eighth Route Army was going to capture the county seat.

In this way, the news of the Eighth Route Army's large-scale attack on Ping'an County was quickly transmitted to the major counties in the surrounding Japanese occupation areas.

Yangquan Command.

The captain of the devil brigade, Akio Nakahara, was surprised.

"Tubalu is so rampant, the spring sweep has just ended, and you dare to take the initiative to invade the county seat?"

The adjutant on the side analyzed: "Your Excellency, Captain, in my opinion, the Eighth Route is the one who dared to launch an attack after learning the news that the main force of our army had been transferred to Jinnan. ”

Zhongyuan Zhangxiong snorted coldly and said: "Even if the main force is not there, it is enough for us to garrison the county seat, these dirt roads really don't know whether to live or die." Now that Ping'an County is under siege, we can't wait any longer, and we are also preparing to send reinforcements in the direction of Yangquan, and the order from the command should be conveyed soon. ”

"Hey!"

Taiyuan City.

After the outbreak of the Jinnan Campaign, the commander of the Japanese First Army in Shanxi, Yoshio Shinozuka, secretly arranged the headquarters in a county town closer to Jinnan, although he was drawn with the troops.

But at the headquarters of Taiyuan City, Shinozuka Yoshio also left a figure enough to garrison, that is, the deputy chief of general staff of the Japanese First Army in Shanxi, Kawawa Nobuyoshi.

After receiving an urgent call for help from the direction of Ping'an County, Kawawa Nobuyoshi had some suspicions that this matter was a little strange.

However, the military urgency brooks no delay.

When the general left the headquarters, he left the base camp in his care.

At present, if Ping'an County is taken by the Eighth Route Army, not to mention the losses of the imperial troops, the imperial military prestige will inevitably be greatly defeated, and how can it be worthy of the general's trust?

In addition, it is the character of the Japanese army, who has won victories on the frontal battlefield and defeated the national army, and has gradually developed the character of being empty-eyed, and even more disapproving it when faced with some dirt roads with backward equipment and scarce ammunition in the occupied areas.

In the eyes of these Japanese generals, it would be a great shame if the county seat was breached by the Tuba Road.

Thinking of this, Kawasawa Xinjun, who did not hesitate, immediately conveyed a communication to the county headquarters of all parties through the general headquarters, ordering Yangquan, Tan County, Zhangzhuang, Taigu, and Taiyuan City, and reinforcements from all walks of life to quickly rush to the aid of Ping'an County and eliminate the Eighth Route Army troops that invaded Ping'an County.

The general troop movement of the Japanese army was roughly similar to what Kong Jie, Li Yunlong, and Ding Wei had expected.

As for the reinforcements dispatched, Kawawa Nobuyoshi also considered that the main force of the army was not there at the moment, and the Eighth Route Army might leave the mountain and take the opportunity to attack other county seats.

Therefore, the premise of ordering reinforcements from all counties is to ensure that the defense strength of one's own county town cannot be greatly weakened.

This has also led to the fact that there are not too many reinforcements from all sides in the past.

Yangquan dispatched about two brigades of the Japanese army along the way (the stronghold was increased and converged on the way), Zhangzhuang dispatched two brigades, Taigu dispatched a brigade, Tan County dispatched a brigade, and Taiyuan City dispatched an artillery squadron, plus an infantry brigade, which was transported by train and quickly transferred to the direction of Ping'an County.

A total of about seven brigades.

plus three regiments of the North China Security Army.

There are also some large strongholds that are closer to Ping'an County, and some reinforcements have also been sent.

But even so, such a troop size is really not much for the Japanese army.

You must know that at the beginning of the sweep, in order to deal with a small independent regiment, the Japanese army temporarily mobilized nearly ten brigades.

At the moment, the enemy's main force is not there, otherwise the reinforcements can even be tripled.

From another point of view, with the transfer of the main force of the Japanese army to the south of Jin, the base camp of the Japanese army stationed in the northwest of Jin is indeed somewhat empty.

This also gave Li Yunlong, Ding Wei, and Kong Jie an opportunity to take advantage of.

In Kong Jie's original words at the pre-war military meeting, "The main force of the devil's first army is currently going to Jinnan, and there will not be too many troops left at the moment. ”

"It is divided into multiple roads, and the strength of the Japanese puppet army on each road is between one and two thousand."

"Besides, what kind of first-class troops can these people stay behind to keep the law? It's not even a second-rate combat unit, it's just some guys who manage public security, without the defense of the county, we are fighting an ambush war, and we don't give the little devils a chance to exert their superior firepower at all. ”

As soon as the battle in the direction of Ping'an County began, Kong Jie's side had already completed the deployment of troops, and the troops entered the ambush position in advance, just like waiting for the rabbit, quietly waiting for the little devil to step into the ambush circle.

Ding Wei, the head of the new regiment, will not let go of such an opportunity to eat meat.

Ding Wei is a bold guy, and his appetite is amazing.

There were two or three devils passing through his new regimental defense area, and he was not ready to let go all the way, so he directly pulled out the whole regiment to fight, and divided the troops into three units and three directions for ambush.

Before the ambush, Ding Wei repeatedly explained: "Our new regiment is fighting, and if we want to fight, we will fight a war of annihilation, why?" Because there is only a war of annihilation, and the capture we get in the end is the most, you said that you fought a battle, and as a result, the devil ran away with supplies and equipment, isn't that a vain fight? ”

"We can't do the business at a loss, your battalion commanders are responsible, and I thought clearly before the ambush, how to annihilate all the devil puppet army in the ambush circle."

"In a word, if you can't fight a war of annihilation, you can't leave the equipment and materials of the devils, even if you win, it's a defeat."

Since the strength of the new regiment was not as large as that of the independent regiment, the situation of the ambush on several routes this time was basically to fight more with less.

But Ding Wei also gave the generals a death order, to fight a war of annihilation, from the beginning of the battle, he had to make up his mind to eat all the Japanese puppet army.

However, the generals of the new regiment did not question Ding Wei's orders, and they were even more confident.

In order to eat these reinforcements, the new regiment moved out of the family.

Not to mention Li Yunlong, the head of the new second regiment, half of the devil Lao Li is not ready to let go.

According to Lao Li's idea, this time Lao Li spent so much effort, risking the risk of carrying the black pot, to take on the task of besieging Ping'an County, and in the end, if he still can't eat meat, it will be a great loss.

…… As time went on, ambushes on all sides quickly began.

At the headquarters of Taiyuan City, the deputy chief of general staff of the Japanese First Army in Shanxi, Nobuyoshi Kawawa, immediately received news that the reinforcements from all sides had been ambushed by the Eighth Route Army, and none of them could reach Ping'an County smoothly.

Even the troops who came out of Taiyuan City and originally wanted to rush to the Ping'an County area along the railway line were ambushed on the way, and there was a big explosion in the middle of the tracks, and many sections of the tracks disappeared, which was obviously a good thing done by those Tuba Road.

At this point, Kawawa Nobuyoshi confirmed his initial suspicions more and more, and the Eighth Road may be using Ping'an County to take the opportunity to send reinforcements.

Until the guerrilla battle in the guerrilla area of the New Second Regiment of the Eighth Route Army intensified.

Li Yunlong, who was red-eyed, saw the Japanese troops in the ambush circle quickly withdraw, and he was about to let go of the little devil.

Lao Li can't care about Ping'an County anymore, anyway, Ping'an County is also a fake fight.

He immediately issued an order to let the local troops who were originally besieging Ping'an County quickly detour and intercept the retreating Japanese puppet army reinforcements.

At this moment, the Japanese command headquarters of all sides suddenly woke up.

I understand, the Eighth Road is not rushing to attack Ping'an County at all.

In order to ambush the reinforcements in the middle, he directly withdrew the siege of Ping'an County.

The most interesting thing is that with the rapid withdrawal of the local troops and militia troops from all sides besieging Ping'an County on Li Yunlong's side, the surrounding area of Ping'an County, which was originally trapped to death, suddenly became empty.

The captain of the devil's gendarme, Fujita Shigeru, was sure that the sudden withdrawal of the Eighth Route Army must have been a trick, and he actually ordered to strictly guard the city gate and not go out.

……

The Japanese puppet army troops who were ambushed on all sides soon turned into lost dogs who fled in rout.

When the troops of the Eighth Route Army heard the news, the newly formed Fifth and Sixth Regiments of the Eighth Route Army, as well as the 772nd Regiment, which was relatively close, also participated in the battle.

Even Chu Yunfei's 358th Regiment, and even the 57th Regiment of the Jin Sui Army, which had been doing business with the independent regiment, heard that the Eighth Route Army was using the siege point of Ping'an County to send reinforcements, and they actually came to get involved.

But anyone who passed through the defense area, or even a few kilometers outside the defense area, did not even watch the devils leave.

Fang Ligong, chief of staff of the 358th Regiment, saw this very clearly:

No matter how we make a move, in the end, the Japanese army will definitely count this revenge on the head of the Eighth Route Army, which is a sure-fire deal.

It can be said that all parties took advantage of the devil's illness to ask for the devil's life, and they came to get a piece of the pie.

Li Yunlong, who was angry, scolded the troops from all sides, they were all old cats who smelled fishy, and they were all shameless.

Brigade headquarters.

Knowing what kind of urinary brigade commanders Kong Jie, Li Yunlong, and Ding Wei were subordinates, they had already arranged for a hand and set up an intelligence agency that was connected with the brigade headquarters around the base area of the Iron Triangle in advance.

As soon as the battle in the direction of Ping'an County began, the brigade headquarters received the news as soon as possible.

Of course, not long after the battle to attack Ping'an County began, Zhao Gang, political commissar of the New Second Regiment, and Li Wenjie, acting political commissar of the Independent Regiment, successively reported the plan for attacking Ping'an County to the headquarters.

In this regard, the two political commissars discussed with their own head of the regiment very clearly.

It's okay to cut a little first, but you have to say hello to the brigade commander somewhat, or you should be scolded if you don't turn back.

The news came.

The political commissar laughed loudly, "Brigade commander, I'm afraid you won't be able to find the handle of this kid Li Yunlong this time, they are attacking Ping'an County, but they are only attacking from the back, and they are still sent by comrades from the local army, and the order is under the local military commission."

The troops of his new second regiment were still standing still when the battle began!

As for the ambush battle, Li Yunlong should say it, the devil hit us Lao Li right under his nose, brigade commander, we can't just watch it, right?

The comrades in the regiment are still waiting to beat the devil and expose the pot! ”

When the brigade commander heard this, he laughed and said, "Yes, this seems to be said by Li Yunlong's rabbit cub." ”

After laughing for a while, returning to the topic, the brigade commander, political commissar, and chief of staff began to follow the map and pay attention to the battles of all parties around Ping'an County.

The chief of staff said: "It's a good encirclement point to send reinforcements, Kong Jie, Li Yunlong, and Ding Wei, these boys, are really not small, and they actually regard Ping'an County as this point." ”

"At present, the battle of Jinnan has dragged the main force of the enemy army in Jinnan, and I don't think the battle over there will be over for a while, this is our chance to breathe.

It is a good idea for Kong Jie and the three of them to seize such an opportunity to take the initiative to take action, forcing the Japanese army that switched from attack to defense to take the initiative to leave the county seat, turning from a tough attack to an ambush war, and turning a disadvantage into an advantage. ”

The political commissar said: "Recently, the Japanese army has been constantly oppressing us in Taihang, except for Li Yunlong, Ding Wei, and Kong Jie, the three regiments are doing better, and the situation of the other regiments is not very optimistic. ”

"From this point of view, the timing of this battle is quite appropriate."

The brigade commander said happily: "I said that you singers and harmonizes, why did you all speak for Li Yunlong, Kong Jie, and Ding Wei?" ”

"Anyway, this battle is a bit of a prelude."

"That's also on your heart, Commander, right?" The chief of staff asked rhetorically.

The brigade commander was stunned for a moment, and then burst out laughing.

This is the truth, the battle around Ping'an County was a breakthrough in the stalemate of the Japanese army's continuous advance of all forces in the base area after the spring sweep.

While the Battle of Jinnan was still ongoing, this was the best opportunity for the troops of the Eighth Route Army to make a move......

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